Mode of raising and letting fall carriage-tops



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH R. WINCHESTER. OF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

MODE OF RAISING AND LETTING FALL CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,144, dated June 20, 1854.

i top to the carriage or let it fall at pleasure without inconvenience by means of a horizontal brace extending -across from side to side of the carriage top just beneath the forward bo-w thereto and passing through said bow att-he sides and attached to the outside braces on either side and the desired effect is produced by making use of the cross brace as a lever operating at the same time upon the outside braces as will more fully appear by the drawing herewith sent. And I further claim to have invented a material improvement in the outside braces,

i which improvement is in the part of the j to the outside outside braces placed between and attached ortions of saidbraces and performs the `o `ce of a double brace, being immovable upon the bow to the top next the last or posterior one except as it turns upon the bolt by which it is fastened to said bo-w as will be seen by reference to drawings.

Eplcmaz'on of the drawing. `F or a more full and complete idea of my invention reference is hereby made to the drawing herewith sent.

a a is a horizontal brace attached to the outside braces Z) at c 0.

e e and f f are joints in the outside braces which are moved by pushing forward the horizontal brace a a when the carriage top is up and causing the top to fall back. The meeting of the two parts of the outside braces at g g forms on either side a sti joint made so by means of the bolt passing through the parts of braces and being then attached to the bow of the top next to the one farthest back. t Then from the above eX- planation it will be readily seen that the desired effect can easily be produced by said invention as set forth and claimed in my specication.

Then what I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The cross brace attached to the outside braces and the center part ofthe outside braces performing as it does the o-iiice ofy a double brace and the two attached to a carn JosnrH n. wrNoHnsTnR.

Vitnesses:

- G. H. ALFORD,

Oris FULLER. 

